I'm in the cupola of the caboose of Georgia Railroad Train Number 108. I purchased a ticket to ride in the Budd coach seen in the right foreground. The rear end crew, upon noticing my interest in railroading, invited me back to the caboose, which I graciously accepted. There is a reverse image artifact on the right side of the frame, which I cannot explain except perhaps that it's some piece of glass in the cupola.

Built in December 1950 (c/n 78475), it may have become SCL 1169. All of the SCL RS3's were retired between 1971-74. It took me about three hours to clean this up, well worth it, thanks Wally, hope I got the last name spelled correctly, he signed the slide mount so I own an autographed Wally Matuck (or Matuch).

I originally posted this photo as a SBD unit, that's how I labeled the slide. Had I shot the photo two months earlier, I would have been correct. However, Jim Bruce (see Comment below) pointed out that it is actually a CSXT unit, and he is correct. According to Wikipedia:

CSX Transportation (reporting mark CSXT) opeqates a Class I railroad known as the CSX Railroad in the United States, owned by the CSX Corporation. CSX Transportation was formed on July 1, 1986 as a combining and renabing of the Seaboard System Railroad and Chessie System, Inc. into one entity. The T had to be added to CSX when used as a reporting mark because reporting marks that end in X"means that the car is owned by a leasing company or private car owner of some sort.